{"id":314962,"date":"2026-08-06T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:10:11","slug":"nyc-weather-forecast-humidity-heat-crank-up-for-tri-state-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314962\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC weather forecast: Humidity, heat crank up for tri-state \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heat advisory goes into effect Thursday and continues through Friday for most of the tri-state area. <\/p>\n<p>High temperatures will be in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees beginning Thursday. That\u2019s about five degrees above normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Picture1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s notable about the next several days is the high humidity that we\u2019ll experience.\u00a0The dew point, a direct measure of atmospheric moisture, will hover in the mid 70s, which is extremely high for this region. That will make it feel oppressive outside.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature, combined with the high dew points, will result in heat indices near 100 degrees both Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Picture3.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Picture2.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The heat advisory may be extended past Friday.\u00a0The heat doesn\u2019t let up much until we get into next week.\u00a0 Expect the heat index to peak in the mid to upper 90s through Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the heat, expect a few showers and storms to bubble up during the afternoon and evening hours.\u00a0 There is a Level 1 risk for severe weather west of New York City.\u00a0The biggest threat will be damaging straight line wind.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, some of the storms could produce heavy downpours, so there is a low-level risk for flash flooding, too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Picture4.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heat advisory goes into effect Thursday and continues through Friday for most of the tri-state area. High&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,336,133],"class_list":["post-314962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-storm-team-4","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}